ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland House of Delegates voted 127-6 Tuesday to again give state judges the authority to sentence prisoners to home detention, a power stripped by a 1999 Maryland Court of Appeals decision

WASHINGTON – If it were not a bill in Congress, it might sound like a line-up for the next Celebrity Death Match: In this corner, the Father of Our Country, facing off against Honest Abe the Rail-Splitter

WASHINGTON – The amount of school loans taken out by Maryland college students jumped 50 percent between 1995 and 1998, as grants and scholarships failed to keep pace with rising tuition costs

WASHINGTON – Maryland Republicans have another chance to put a Kimble in Congress

WASHINGTON – Virginia officials made good on their threat Friday and took Maryland to the Supreme Court over Maryland’s refusal to let Fairfax County build a new water intake pipe in the Potomac River

WASHINGTON – If elected to the Senate, attorney Robin Ficker could have quite a crowd at his inauguration

WASHINGTON – Vice President Al Gore collected the most money from Marylanders last year with $1,313,305 in individual contributions, edging out Texas Gov

ANNAPOLIS – A House committee Thursday approved two bills to force insurance companies to pay for preauthorized services and limit the time they could take back money paid in error, after insurers and physicians battled over the measures in a hearing this week

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ANNAPOLIS – Maryland dumped almost 260,000 pounds of toxic metals into its waterways in 1997, ranking the state 11th worst in the nation for such pollution, according to a study released Thursday by an environmental watchdog group